Kassie Hartendorp

Kassie Hartendorp is a community worker, activist and advocate for anti-racism, LGBTQI+ and takatāpui support, workers rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi education. She is the director of ActionStation Aotearoa, a New Zealand community campaigning organisation.

Upbringing and education Hartendorp grew up first in Upper Hutt, Wellington, and then Whanganui from age 8. She was born in the late 1980s.

Hartendorp has been a supporting member of Fightback, a socialist organisation, and in 2016 edited a youth issue of a Fightback publication. As an advocate and writer she has articles published in The Spinoff, Pantograph Punch, Vice and eTangata (an online Sunday magazine run by the Mana Trust. She was editor of The Aunties Magazine, a one-off publication about political organising by women in New Zealand. We can respect the essence of another person in their wholeness, or dehumanise them. One path leads to a strong, vibrant, enriched manifestation of whakapapa, one results in rigid roles that do not reflect our lived realities, causing stigma and isolation. Hartendorp taught a Te Tiriti o Waitangi education workshop along with Treaty Educator Moea Armstrong from Network Waitangi in the lead up to the introduction of the Treaty Principles Bill. In 2025 Hartendorp appeared on a panel on Māori current affairs TV show The Hui alongside Ella Henry, (Auckland University of Technology), Matt Roskruge, (economics professor, Massey University) discussing the win over the Treaty Principles Bill in parliament after ActionStations were part of campaigns. Hartendorp is based in Wellington and became the director of ActionStation in 2020.